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Parental origin of the deletion 22q11.2 and brain development in velocardiofacial syndrome: a preliminary study.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Jan 2001
Eliez S, Antonarakis S E, Morris M A, Dahoun S P, Reiss A L
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BACKGROUND: As children with velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) develop, they are at increased risk for psychopathology; one third will eventually develop schizophrenia. Because VCFS and the concomitant symptomatology result from a known genetic origin, the biological and behavioral characteristics of the syndrome provide an optimal framework for conceptualizing the associations among genes, brain development, and...
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